This week's Friday Flourish comes to us from Shawn Suter of the Charlottesville, VA dance community. We saw him at FootFall last month and he showed Steve and me a couple of really neat moves. This was one of them, which Steve has tweaked a bit to sneak in a swing with a neighbor when you might not otherwise get one -- just make sure you're done in time for the next figure. Enjoy!

You, too could have your flourishes featured! Send them to me and maybe they'll get featured on this blog!

Update, 6:20 P.M.: Apparently the last 40 seconds or so of this video didn't upload properly. Mea culpa. Edited to fix.

This project has concluded as of mid-2013 (with an epilogue posted mid-2016) but we hope to see you soon on a contra dance floor! Meanwhile, head over to our Facebook page for upcoming techno contra events and other items of interest.

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I dance with abandon. I play with glowsticks. I look for music that is conducive to one or both. I play behind cameras. I write about all of the above. I'm based in Glen Echo's contra dance community outside of Washington, D.C., but I'm happy to go dance afield when I can. Lather, rinse, repeat. Always repeat.